lorinda stewart: uh, i understand. kate snow (voiceover): their stories are intertwined, amanda lindhout-- my head is pulled back, and then there was a serrated knife. kate snow (voiceover): --and her mother, lorinda stewart. kate snow: did you keep it together? i did. i had to be strong for her. kate snow: driven by strength, courage, and endurance, these women would not only survive this ordeal, but their determination in a completely new chapter of their story would ultimately lead them to triumph over one of the men who had terrorized them so brutally. and it would take an elaborate international sting. it sounds like something out of a movie. it does. we always refer to this operation as the hail mary play. kate snow (voiceover): but before all of that, this story begins in a small town in western canada, where a young woman named amanda lindhout yearned for a world beyond her hometown. one constant was that i wanted to be a world traveler, that i wanted to go to every country in the world. kate snow (voiceover):